Superior Man Accused of Twelve Felony Drug Charges: Police

SUPERIOR, CO - A Superior man was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of selling a variety of drugs after police found more than five types of drugs and over one hundred marijuana plants in a raid on his house, reported the Daily Camera.

James Daniel Kavanagh is accused of 12 charges, including possession with intent to distribute MDMA, LSD, methcathinone, oxycodone, cocaine, alprazolam (Xanax), and diazepam (Valium). Other possible charges include distribution of MDMA and ecstasy, as well as cultivation of more than 30 marijuana plants. All those charges are felonies.

The Camera reported that according to his arrest affadavit, police executed several controlled buys from Kavanagh's home, beginning in January. When a search warrant was executed upon his home at 121 Mohawk Circle in Superior, police searched Kavanagh's Honda SUV, where they found a snakeskin bag containing 18 MDMA pills, eight oxycodone pills, two amphetamine pills, one clonazepan pill, 1.5 diazepam pills and a half-pill of alprazolam, according to the affidavit. They also found 16.66 grams of MDMA, 2.33 grams of methcaninone, small amounts of LSD and cocaine, two sugar cubes and seven mints believed to contain LSD, and an unknown yellow powder. There was also $16,800 in cash in the vehicle.

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Police also found 131 marijuana plants across two rooms in the house, which they seized and destroyed.

Kavanagh is being held at the Boulder County Jail on a $50,000 cash bond. He will be formally charged in court on Thursday.

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